Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned us of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, but is AI really going to be the downfall of humanity? Read More: The ...
========== A.I. might be a human-destroying killer, but
without ANY A.I., the world wouldn't be a very awesome place. Stephen Hawking famously said to the BBC,
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race[1]."
Elon Musk has said it's like, "summoning the demon[2]." And yet, earlier this month, Elon
Musk, Stephen Hawking and important minds from around the world signed an open letter
from the Future of Life Institute encouraging a future for the technology. The letter was
widely interpreted by the media[3],[4] to indicate these super-smart peeps are saying
A.I. is going to KILL US ALL, but that's not entirely accurate. It says, right in the open letter[5], "The
potential benefits are huge, since everything that civilizati...